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Oracle Makes Commitments to Customers, Developers and Users of MySQL
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - December 14, 2009) - Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) 
has engaged in constructive discussions with the European Commission 
regarding the concerns expressed by the Commission about the Oracle/Sun 
Microsystems transaction, and in particular the maintenance of MySQL as a 
competitive force in the database market.
In order further to reassure the Commission, Oracle hereby publicly commits 
to the following:
1. Continued Availability of Storage Engine APIs. Oracle shall maintain and 
periodically enhance MySQL's Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture to allow 
users the flexibility to choose from a portfolio of native and third party 
supplied storage engines.
MySQL's Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture shall mean MySQL's current 
practice of using, publicly-available, documented application programming 
interfaces to allow storage engine vendors to "plug" into the MySQL 
database server. Documentation shall be consistent with the documentation 
currently provided by Sun.
2. Non-assertion. As copyright holder, Oracle will change Sun's current 
policy and shall not assert or threaten to assert against anyone that a 
third party vendor's implementations of storage engines must be released 
under the GPL because they have implemented the application programming 
interfaces available as part of MySQL's Pluggable Storage Engine 
Architecture.
A commercial license will not be required by Oracle from third party 
storage engine vendors in order to implement the application programming 
interfaces available as part of MySQL's Pluggable Storage Engine 
Architecture.
Oracle shall reproduce this commitment in contractual commitments to 
storage vendors who at present have a commercial license with Sun.
3. License commitment. Upon termination of their current MySQL OEM 
Agreement, Oracle shall offer storage vendors who at present have a 
commercial license with Sun an extension of their Agreement on the same 
terms and conditions for a term not exceeding December 10, 2014.
Oracle shall reproduce this commitment in contractual commitments to 
storage vendors who at present have a commercial license with Sun.
4. Commitment to enhance MySQL in the future under the GPL. Oracle shall 
continue to enhance MySQL and make subsequent versions of MySQL, including 
Version 6, available under the GPL. Oracle will not release any new, 
enhanced version of MySQL Enterprise Edition without contemporaneously 
releasing a new, also enhanced version of MySQL Community Edition licensed 
under the GPL. Oracle shall continue to make the source code of all 
versions of MySQL Community Edition publicly available at no charge.
5. Support not mandatory. Customers will not be required to purchase 
support services from Oracle as a condition to obtaining a commercial 
license to MySQL.
6. Increase spending on MySQL research and development. Oracle commits to 
make available appropriate funding for the MySQL continued development (GPL 
version and commercial version). During each of the next three years, 
Oracle will spend more on research and development (R&D) for the MySQL 
Global Business Unit than Sun spent in its most recent fiscal year (USD 24 
million) preceding the closing of the transaction.
7. MySQL Customer Advisory Board. No later than six months after the 
anniversary of the closing, Oracle will create and fund a customer advisory 
board, including in particular end users and embedded customers, to provide 
guidance and feedback on MySQL development priorities and other issues of 
importance to MySQL customers.
8. MySQL Storage Engine Vendor Advisory Board. No later than six months 
after the anniversary of the closing, Oracle will create and fund a storage 
engine vendor advisory board, to provide guidance and feedback on MySQL 
development priorities and other issues of importance to MySQL storage 
engine vendors.
9. MySQL Reference Manual. Oracle will continue to maintain, update and 
make available for download at no charge a MySQL Reference Manual similar 
in quality to that currently made available by Sun.
10. Preserve Customer Choice for Support. Oracle will ensure that end-user 
and embedded customers paying for MySQL support subscriptions will be able 
to renew their subscriptions on an annual or multi-year basis, according to 
the customer's preference.
The geographic scope of these commitments shall be worldwide and these 
commitments shall continue until the fifth anniversary of the closing of 
the transaction.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements 
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements about 
Oracle, Sun and MySQL, including statements that involve risks and 
uncertainties such as the satisfaction of conditions to closing the 
transaction, including clearance of the transaction by the European 
Commission. When used in this press release, the words "shall," "plans," 
"commits" and "will" and other similar expressions and any other statements 
that are not historical facts are intended to identify those assertions as 
forward-looking statements. Any such statement is subject to a number of 
potential risks and uncertainties, which may include, among others, the 
possibility that the transaction will not be cleared by relevant regulatory 
authorities, the transaction may not otherwise close or that the closing of 
the proposed transaction may be further delayed and the possibility that 
Oracle or Sun may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or 
competitive factors. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that the 
European Commission will clear the transaction, that the closing will 
transpire or occur, or if these events occur, what impact they will have on 
the results of operations or financial condition of Oracle or Sun.
In addition, please refer to the documents that Oracle and Sun, 
respectively, file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") 
on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K for additional risks. You are cautioned not to 
place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of 
the date of this press release. Neither Oracle nor Sun is under any duty to 
update any of the information in this press release.
About Oracle 
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. 
For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at 
http://www.oracle.com.
Trademark 
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its 
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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